Google News will begin labeling "fact-checking" articles that appear major news story clusters. Richard Gingras, the "Head of News" at Google, writes that Google News will check for schema.org ClaimReview markup:
Over the last several years, fact checking has come into its own. Led by organizations like the International Fact-Checking Network, rigorous fact checks are now conducted by more than 100 active sites, according to the Duke University Reporter's Lab. They collectively produce many thousands of fact-checks a year, examining claims around urban legends, politics, health, and the media itself.
In the seven years since we started labeling types of articles in Google News (e.g., In-Depth, Opinion, Wikipedia), we've heard that many readers enjoy having easy access to a diverse range of content types. Earlier this year, we added a "Local Source" Tag to highlight local coverage of major stories. Today, we're adding another new tag, "Fact check," to help readers find fact checking in large news stories. You'll see the tagged articles in the expanded story box on news.google.com and in the Google News & Weather iOS and Android apps, starting with the U.S. and the U.K.
TechCrunch notes that "The Schema community builds markups for structured data on the internet. The group is sponsored by Google but also has support from Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex."
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Thexalon on Saturday October 15 2016, @09:56PM
I a while back decided to try to express the basic problem in song form:
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"And I don't want to and I don't need to
Don't make me think too much, or I will beat you,
It's not my fault that I'm always wrong
The bad ideas just tend to crowd out the strong."
The gullible people, the gullible people
It's all relative, say the foolish sheeple
Can't see the forest, nor the trees
They've got opinions, we're to leave them be.
Gotta learn how to discriminate
Between all the ideas that are just one click away, I say
"Hey! You! What did you read?
Something citable or some dumb screed?
Hey! You! Though it may sound mean
You've gotta research more what's on your screen!"
The memes will pass around from host to host
It's hard to learn which one to believe most
The gullible people, the gullible people
It's as common as corruption in a steeple
Human stupidity has made it this way,
Old-fashioned foolishness won't take it away.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday October 16 2016, @12:41AM
There is also another Marilyn Manson song which describes the problems of America so eloquently: